ASS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1980
Guernsey Queen
(Continued from Page Al)
nesota’s colder climate. She
said the tulips were still
blooming there last week.
She said that from a plane it
looks big and flat and square
and she was intrigued by
how cluttered with buildings
and trees and hills the
Pennsylvania landscape
looks by comparison. She
also said that the average
herd size is more like 80
milkers rather than the 40
average around here. But
her feelings were evident
when she said one of the
nicest things about going
away is “that it lets you
appreciate so much more
what you have right here at
home.”
evening, a Gemutlicheit
Nacht was held complete
with an evening of German
polkas. The Scandinavian
and German ancestry of the
people around Rochester
was the reason this par
ticular theme was chosen,
but one could tell it suited
Millie toaT.
Saturday morning, the
girls went on a farm tour,
and in the evening they
drove to St. Paul and took a
riverboat cruise down the
Mississippi River with
dinner and dancing. Sunday
morning more tours, a pork
barbecue and rehearsals
were held, and Sunday
evening after a prime rib
dinner, Millie was crowned
by Geraldine Carson, last
year’s queen. The crowning
capped off the evening
program in which the girls
were interviewed and
questioned.
Millie’s question was
“what if a stranger were to
ask you what a Guernsey
cow is what would you
say?”
Her answer was, “I would
tell him that she combines
business with pleasure. That
she can consume all sorts of
roughages and convert them
into delicious milk. That in
one quart of milk there is 19
percent more protein and
vitamins than the average
store-bought milk and that if
everyone drank Guernsey
milk they would be stronger
and healthier. And if
everyone was stronger and
healthier it would be a
happier world.”
For her win, Millie
received her crown, a
trophy, a bouquet of yellow
silk roses and her expenses
will be paid during the
coming year’s official
travels.
On Monday, the American
Guernsey Cattle Club held a
breakfast. Then a business
meeting followed as well as a
luncheon of wall-eyed pike
which Millie described as
delicious. The National
Heifer Sale and Minnesota
Convention Sale followed.
Millie began her official
duties at the breakfast and
continued throughout the
day leading the first heifer of
the auction into the nng and
running tickets back and
forth. Soe also showed her
parent’s heifer a Deacon
daughter due in July to
Minnie’s Choice. This
production bred heifer
brought $2200. While her
schedule this past week was
hectic, perhaps the toughest
part was the fact that she
went from Thursday to
Tuesday without donning
blue jeans.
Among the things she
noted during her travels
were the different feed
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Getting to see different
sides of people, different
operations, and to learn
more about her chosen breed
are some of the advantages
Millie expects to experience
during the coming year. She
said that her Pennsylvania
reign has made her more
outgoing and has formed alot
of friendships. “Now when I
go to a Guernsey function,
it’s just like one big happy
family.” she said. The oidy
problem she could think of
was the traveling and
that only because she gets
motion sick.
One of the things she did
while m Minnesota was to
compare the breeding in the
West to the Guernsey
breeding around here. Off
spring from Quantity im
pressed her and she would
like to try some of his
breeding.
Millie has 11 animals of
her own. Four animals are
milking. She said that she
received a heifer from her
family for Christmas and
that m January she bought a
heifer at the Guernsey Bam
in Lancaster which is due
any day now. She has mostly
Winston breeding and is
breeding them to Minnie’s
Choice. She said she’s
aiming for production and
type.
Millie said that her home
farm was basically well
managed before her studies
m dairy science. The 143
acre farm has 80 head of
Guernsey cattle and between
35-40 milkers. Fourteen
separate lots are fenced so
the family can practice
pasture rotation. The herd is
on DHIA test and the family
only uses AI on their
animals.
“Basically, my dairy
science studies gave me a
clearer insight into more of
the details involved in
dairying.” Smce her studies,
she has adopted two new
management practices,
however. They are the use of
the electric dehomer, which
she now uses on all the
calves, and the use of top
dressing of feed for the
higher producing cows.
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While Millie looks to the future with calves such
as this, she sees possibilities that would make her
breed even more valuable, such as component
pricing. '
While a change m DHIA
computations recently
makes it more difficult for
her to compare whether the
new feeding has increased
production, she feels that it
has. And additionally, she
said, the cows seem
heaJ-»'ier, their coats are
shin s - and coincidentally
the' ai j : eemg far less cases
of foot i ot
Whi’c she makes it clear
she is happy with her life
right now as a paid fulltime
employees on her parents’
farm helping with all the
farm chores including
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plowing and baling as well as
all the feeding of the dairy
animals, questions about her
future elicit a pause. Then
she says rather quietly that
while her own future may
include marriage and may
hinge on what her brothers
decide about farming, she
definitely wants to remain in
dairying and will do
anything to see the home
farm survive. She states
with absolute determination
that if a Holstein guy turns
out to be Mister Right, “he’ll
have to understand that my
Guernseys come along.”
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Millie Linde, back, home on her parents’ Lin
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as 1980 National Guernsey Queen.
Virginville Grange meets
VIRGINVILLE - At the
recent meeting of the
Virginville Grange, up
coming events were
discussed.
On June 19, the youth of
the Grange will be going to
Hershey Park. The juniors
are making first-aid kits to
sell. State Jr. Grange Camp
will be held July 13-19.
A dairy luncheon will be
held June 4. The next youth
meeting will be held June 3.
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